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TIL the Beastie Boys are credited with coining the term 'mullet'

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BrxWk TIL that Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined for 21 days after returning from the moon to prepare for "the remote possibility that they are harboring unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth"
mD6x TIL that the idea that people used to think that the world was flat is actually a modern misconception and “with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat”
yeZv TIL of Rachel Hoffman, a 23-y.o. college grad who was murdered in a drug sting gone wrong. After being caught with 5 oz. of weed & 4 ecstasy pills, she was forced to try buying $13k of coke, ecstasy, & a gun.
P1kpG TIL that the .nu top-level domain, intended for the country of Niue, is currently managed by the Swedish Internet Foundation. The government of Niue is in legal proceedings to reclaim ownership of the domain.
b9D59 TIL Abdol Hossein Sardari is credited with saving thousands of Jews in Europe, and given the title "Schindler of Iran"